In a 16-3 Tigers rout at Briggs Stadium, A’s catcher Harry O’Neill appears in his only major league game. In 1945, the 22 year-old backstop will die in combat on Iwo Jima, becoming one of only two big leaguers to be killed in World War II.

On July 23, 1939 — In a 16-3 Tigers rout at Briggs Stadium, A’s catcher Harry O’Neill appears in his only major league game. In 1945, the 22 year-old backstop will die in combat on Iwo Jima, becoming one of only two big leaguers to be killed in World War II.

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